Vermin-exterminator for poultry-coops



C. F. BROWN.

VERMIN EXTERMINATOR FOR POULTRY COOPS.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

6 M A J 1 3 OIMII O =3 2 2 UNITED FICE.

CHARLES 1?. BROWN, OF SOUTH RIDGE, KANSAS.

VERMIN-EXTEBMINATOR FUR PGULTRY-GOOPS.

Application filed February 21, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. BROWN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at South Ridge, in the county of Johnson and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vermin-Exterminators for Poultry-Coops; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the 1nvention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

The object of the invention is,

First. To enable the fowls, birds, or other occupants of coops, to distribute a disinfectant in all parts of the coop in which they may be gathered either upon the roost or the ground, so that the vermin upon the ground is not carried to and from the roosts.

Second. To provide a roost for poultry, whose surfaces for long or short distances are traversed by the feet and prevent insects and parasitic growth or vermin of any description from obtaining a lodgment on the roosts, and excrement which breeds lice upon the body of the poultry.

Third. To provide a disinfectant storing and distributing roost for poultry coops.

The invention consists in the novel means for distribution of the disinfectants and the disinfecting structure which will be first fully described and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is an isometric view of a coop, a portion of one side and end being broken away showing the invention applied within the coop.

Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are detail views.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts-in all the figures of the drawings.

The vermin exterminator, as seen in the drawings, consists in its principal form of a longitudinal box beam 5, of any desired length and narrow in width, the side members 5' 5, and end members 6-6, of the box, extending upwardly from the bottom member 7 the same height; the respective p rts being connected with each other hermetically. The box closure consists of a longitudinal strip or rail of wood of the length of the box between its ends. The body of the strip closure extends within the box downwardly to within a short distance of the bot- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Mar.2,1920.

Serial No. 278,460.

tom 7 of the box, and a short distance upwardly above the lines of the upper surfaces of the sides 5 5 of the box and is provided with lateral flanges 99 which extend past the lines of the sides 5-5 of the box short distances so as to prevent excrement gatheringon the sides of the box or beam 5, and also short distances past the lines of the end members 6-6 of the box.

A longitudinal vertical opening 10, extends the entire length of the strip or rail 8, dividing the body portion of the strip into two equal vertically positioned parts or strips, and between said parts extends longitudinally a wick 12 composedof suitable thick compressible material, the upper portion of the wick extending above the sides of the opening 10 in the upper surface of the strips and 'a short distance from the openin 10 below the lower surface of the strips. ins 13 extend through both portions of the strips near their lower edges, and the wick 12, the upper flanged parts of the strips being compressible inwardly against the wick when the wick is in place between the said strips, the outer surfaces of the said strips are adapted to extend within the side members 5- 5 of the box with slight frictional contact.

The supporting means for a series of the longitudinal disinfecting boxes 5 with their wick carrying closures 8, consist of like dis infecting boxes 14, and closures 15, carrying a, wick 15, as seen in Fig. 3, and which are precisely the same as the disinfecting boxes 5 and the wick carrying box closures 8, the

said closures 15, having transverse openings- 16 therein spaced at the requisite distances apart. These openings extend downwardly to the lines of the upper surfaces of the side members 14c, 14, of the box 14, and are each of the proper size to receive transversely a disinfectant holding box 5.

7 Upon one end 14 of the box 14:, are flanges 171.I spaced apart and between which is secured by a bolt 18, the head of an eye bolt 19, the outer end of which bolt is screwthreaded at 20. This eye bolt forms a hinge for the boxes 1 1. The closure 8 is removed from the box 6, and the wick 12 saturated with a volatiledisinfecting fluid. A quantity of the fluid is placed in the bottom of the box and the closure replaced. Capillary attraction will cause the fluid to rise in the wick and keep the exposed portion moist with the fluid. The closure 15, in the box 14,

1 within the coop 21 a short distance from and parallel with the end members la-2 1 of the coop, and with end members 1 1 of said boxes in the direction of one side member 25 of said coop and the threaded end 20 of the bolt extended through openings 25 made in said side member. Upon the outer ends of thebolts are nuts 23, which hold the bolts 20 from displacement. This attachment permits the roosts to be raised upwardly for cleaning the coop. The other ends of the boxes 55 are supported in the forked upper ends 26 of a prop comprising the downwardly and outwardly extended legs 27, having horizontal outwardly ex tended flanges or feet 28 upon their lower ends, as seen in Fig. 4, which rests upon the floor 24, forming the bottom of the coop. A number of the longitudinal disinfectant carrying boxes 5, with their wick carrying closures, are then placed in position upon the closures 15 of the supporting disinfecting tie boxes 14 and within the opening 16,

the bottom member of the said boxes 5, resting upon a portion of the closure 15, containing a portion of the wick 15.

" 29 indicates the door opening to the coop and 30 the door closing said opening. 31 indicates the path of travel to the door opening 29 into the coop, which consists of a numberof the disinfectant carrying rails 8, being closures 8 provided with the wicks 12, as seen in Fig. 2, the rails 8 being placed as close together as required to furnish a foothold for the poultry in ascending to the opening 29 in the coop, which compels a grasp of the foot upon each side of closure 8, consequently the parts of the closure compress the wick 12 and the foot is moistened with the disinfectant in the wick 12 before entering the coop.

As shown, the coop is mounted on the corner posts 32 to aflord a circulation of air beneath the coop, but the coop may rest upon the ground and the ground form the-bottom of the coop, the entrance to which, in general, is elevated a short distance above the level of the ground.

Upon reaching the interior of the coop,

.the fowls seeking the roosts, ascend to the closures 8 upon the respective disinfectant carrying boxes 5 and move from one position to another upon the closures, in which movements the feet become moistened with the disinfectant from the wick 12, and when resting with the body upon the wick and grasping the opposite flanges 9 of the closure 8, the volatile elements of the disinfectant are diffused through the feathers of the fowl, destroying insect life and preventing germination of vermin upon the roosts. The substance of the closures 8, within the disinfectant containing boxes 5, which are preferably of soft pine, becomes saturated with the disinfectant and hence lice or other vermin are quickly destroyed. In like manner, the migration of lice or other vermin is prevented from one roost to another, the path of travel being necessarily over a portion of the saturated wick carrying closures 15, of the ties or boxes 14.

I am aware that poultry perches have been constructed in the form of a box for holding a disinfecting dispensing liquid with par allel strips within the box for the roost, between which a wick has been interposed and the disinfectant distributed bycapillary attraction.

Qther inventions have purposed fastening the strips together by nails, screws and bolts, while in my invention I purpose a slight movement of the upper flanged portions of the strips on the pins 13, located near the lower edges of the strips, upon which the outer portions of the strips are afforded an inward compression upon the wick.

The invention is applicable to various other uses such as vans and ambulances for the transportation of persons, or in contagious wards of hospitals for the beds, or

the means described for disinfecting may be applied in any path of travel and the closure 8 and the boxes 5 employed independently'of each other, with such modifications as are within the scope of the appended claims.

Having fully described my invention, what I now claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A disinfecting poultry roost, comprising a rail having a longitudinal vertical opening dividing the body portion of the rail into two vertically positioned parts, a wick composed ofcompressible material extending between said parts, the upper portion of the wick extending above the sides of said opening at the upper surfaces of said parts, and pins extending through both parts of said rail near their lower edges upon which the upper portions of said parts of said rail are afforded amovable relation to each other and an inward compression upon the wick.

2 A disinfecting poultry roost comprise ing a longitudinal receptacle for the disinfectant, and a box closure consisting'of a longitudinal strip having a longitudinal vertical opening dividingthe body portion of the strip into two vertically positioned parts, a wick composed of compressible ma- 1'30 terial extending longitudinally between said parts, the upper portion of the wick extending above the sides of the opening at the upper surface of said parts and also below the lower surfaces of said parts, means for supporting the closure at a suitable distance above the bottom of the receptacle and pins extending through both parts of the closure near their lower edges, the upper portions of said strips being compressible upon the 10 said pins inwardly against the wick.

CHARLES F. BROWN.

Witnesses MARGUERITE BRowDER, MINNIE G. LONG. 

